. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April, 1915. American Hee Journal to cover from 100 to 200 colonies. They are built by placing two rows of posts parallel with a cross beam at the top, and over this seven or eight wires are stretched lengthwise, making the width about 10 or 12 feet. These wires are covered with arrow weed, a peculiar brush that grows on all overflow land to the height of 5 or 6 feet, perfectly straight, and contains thick leaves which make it ideal for shade. "The honey is generally light amber, some seasons very light, other seasons darker. It compares favorabl
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April, 1915. American Hee Journal to cover from 100 to 200 colonies. They are built by placing two rows of posts parallel with a cross beam at the top, and over this seven or eight wires are stretched lengthwise, making the width about 10 or 12 feet. These wires are covered with arrow weed, a peculiar brush that grows on all overflow land to the height of 5 or 6 feet, perfectly straight, and contains thick leaves which make it ideal for shade. "The honey is generally light amber, some seasons very light, other seasons darker. It compares favorably in color with the light amber honey produced in the coast counties. It is very mild in flavor, and must not be confounded with the dark strong honey produced in other parts of the State from alfalfa. In the early days, before the reclama- tion of the land, some honey was pro- duced from wild hollyhock and another plant or shrub called ' grease brush,' which was very dark and with a strong flavor. With the reclaiming of the desert this has entirely disappeared. " With the formation of the county the Board of Supervisors saw the ne- cessity of the protection of the bee industry. We have always had an in- spector of apiaries, and the conse- quences are that the county is practi- cally free of brood diseases. All bees are kept in standard movable frame hives. Several years ago to further safeguard the industry, the supervisors adopted an ordinance then in force in several other counties in southern California for the prevention of the shipment of bees from districts or counties where disease was known to exist, giving the inspector power to declare a quarantine if necessary. The danger of importing brood disease has practically been eliminated. "Generally speaking, the crops are not very large, but the certainty of crops appeals to a person more than one year of large crops with an almost entire failure other years. Again it is perhaps more expensive to maintain an apia
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